Grease Trap Cleaning in Johannesburg

Grease Trap Cleaning in Johannesburg

Grease trap cleaning in Johannesburg is mostly booked by restaurants, takeaways, hotels, school and hospital kitchens, and shopping centre food courts. Give the trap type and size, how often you cook with oil and where the lid is, so operators serving Johannesburg and the rest of Gauteng can quote accurately.

Want to know more first? Our grease trap cleaning guide covers the options, what to check and what affects the price.

Septic tanks and drainage in Johannesburg

Most of Johannesburg is on the municipal sewer, so septic and conservancy tanks turn up in pockets: older homes in the south, plots on the city edge such as Lanseria and Diepsloot, and commercial sites where connections never reached. Conservancy tanks serve some new developments waiting for bulk services, and tanker trips to the Goudkoppies and Olifantsvlei works are common. Rocky ridges and clay mean soakaways drain slowly in summer storms. Honey sucker operators work from the southern and western industrial areas and cover most suburbs the same day, though peak weeks after heavy rain run behind. Ask what size tank you have before booking.

Typical grease trap cleaning requests in the area come from:

• Houses: a small under-sink trap at a home business kitchen or a granny flat with a full kitchen
• Restaurants, shops and offices: frequent cleaning of restaurant, takeaway and food court traps to meet by-laws and landlords
• Estates and complexes: traps at a clubhouse restaurant or communal kitchen, serviced on a body corporate schedule
• Factories, mines, sites and events: large traps at food factories and staff canteens with a waste slip for each visit
• Schools, churches and clinics: scheduled cleaning of school, hospital and church hall kitchen traps, often in the holidays
• Smallholdings and plots: a trap on a farm stall, deli or catering kitchen run from a smallholding

Local tips for Johannesburg

Common here: conservancy tanks on new sites, old septic tanks in older homes, grease traps in shops. Ask each operator or contractor to allow for this: ask which works the load is tipped at and for a disposal slip. Help usually comes from southern and western industrial areas, with tankers also running from Roodepoort.

Grease Trap Cleaning usually means pump out and scrape fat, water and solids, for 50 to 2,000 L kitchen traps, every 2 weeks to 3 months. Ground in the area: clay and rocky ridges: soakaways drain slowly after summer rain.

What to include in your request

• Trap type: under-sink, in-ground or large chamber, and size if known
• What the kitchen cooks and roughly how many meals a day
• When it was last cleaned and how long it took to fill
• Where the lid is and whether it is under a table or paving
• Whether you need a regular contract and a service slip

The more detail you give, the more accurate your quote will be.

Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds

Operators, contractors and suppliers on our network work in Johannesburg and surrounding areas, including Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. Give the suburb, holding or farm name so the quote can include travel, and say how soon you need someone.

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